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Corinne Le Quéré

University of East Anglia

Tyndall Centre Director

Role at TyndallProfessor Corinne Le Quéré FRS, is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She conducts research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle.

Prof Le Quéré leads the annual update of the Global Carbon Budget, an effort of the Global Carbon Project to provide the latest information global and national carbon emissions and their partitioning among the atmosphere, land and oceans, including their drivers. She is a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, and was author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

BackgroundProf Le Quéré is originally from Canada. She completed a Ph.D. in oceanography in University Paris VI (1999), an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University, and a B.Sc. in physics from University of Montréal. She has conducted research at Princeton University in the United States, at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, and at the British Antarctic Survey.

Research InterestsProf Le Quéré’s core research area is on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle, including the drivers of human emissions. She made a number of advances in the quantification of the causes of variability and trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide over various time-scales, and spearheaded the development and use of carbon cycle models in carbon budgets.

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Global Carbon Budget

2017

The Global Carbon Budget 2016 and its implication for meeting global warming targets was unveiled at COP22 in Marrakesh.

Following-on 2015, a year in which global CO2 emissions did not grow from industry overall published last year by the Global Carbon Budget http://globalcarbonbudget2015.org/ we waited with anticipation the publication of this year’s 2016 Global Carbon Budget on 14 November and to hear its latest implications for climate policy.

The research community has highlighted for several decades the implications of greenhouse gas emissions for climate change. In response, world governments have agreed to limit global temperature change to 2°C, which requires drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In advanced economies, a commitment to a 2°C limit generally represents a reduction of emissions of between 80-95% from the 1990 baseline. Despite this, emissions from international aviation increased by 53 % between 1990 and 2011 in those countries.

Low growth in global carbon emissions continues for third successive year

2016

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project.

The projected rise of only 0.2% for 2016 marks a clear break from the rapid emissions growth of 2.3% per year in the decade to 2013, with just 0.7 per cent growth seen in 2014.

Tyndall Centre Directors Appeal to the US Administration to Continue to Support US and International Climate Initiatives

2017

As Donald Trump is attempting to undo the Obama plans to curb climate change, Tyndall Centre Directors appeal to the US Administration and Congress to consider the enormous amount of evidence that shows that human-activities are adversely changing the Earth’s climate.

Director Prof Corinne Le Quéré delivers 50th Anniversary Lecture

2017

Watch again the 50th Anniversary Lecture of the University of East Anglia by Tyndall Centre Director Professor Corinne Le Quéré. Her lecture is the start of a year-long celebration marking the 50 year contribution of UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, the first environmental sciences department in the world.

Deciphering the global carbon cycle is as fascinating as it is difficult. Yet the global carbon budget is perhaps THE central bit of knowledge that society must have, if an informed decision on carbon mitigation is ever to be made.

Record high CO2 emissions delay global peak

2017

Global carbon emissions are on the rise again in 2017 after three years of little-to-no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Global Carbon Project in the release of the 2017 Global Carbon Budget.

Tyndall Director helps French President Make The Planet Great Again

2017

The Director of the Tyndall Centre, Prof. Corinne Le Quéré, Chaired the International Panel that helped French President Emmanuel Macron 'Make The Planet Great Again', an invitation to climate scientists to continue their work in France, following the decision of US President Donald Trump to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

The Research Year Ahead 2018

Dear Colleagues, I wish you a successful year for 2018 and thank you all for your contributions to the life and dynamism of the Tyndall Centre for both the old year and the new one. And if you are reading this as a visitor to our website. First, welcome to the Tyndall Centre and thank you for visiting. Second, please do contact us with your insights and ideas on how the Tyndall Centre can continue to make a valuable difference.